New American Fiction
Title: New American Fiction Year: 1965 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Indiana University Press Issue: No. 20, pp. 46-51 Description: Reviewed Works: ‘The Rector of Justin’ by Louis Auchincloss; ‘Herzog’ by Saul Bellow; ‘The People One Knows’ by Robert Boles; ‘A Confederate General from Big Sur’ by Richard Brautigan; ‘Full Fathom Five’ by John Stewart […]
He Was a Big Boy Still Is
Title: He Was a Big Boy Still Is Year: 1994 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: Ontario Review Issue: Vol. 41, Article 15, pp. 38-47 Description: A dramatic monologue by a White public defender, counseling the mother of a young, mentally-impaired Black defendant. A WOMAN in her 30’s or 40’s, a public defender, is speaking. – Come […]
hang
Title: hang Year: 2018 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Women in Theater Journal Online Issue: July 25, 2018 Description: Originally premiering in 2015 at London’s Royal Court Theater, hang is a play which makes you laugh, or gasp, again, at human frailty, at human foolishness, and at the social and political arrangements and institutions which […]
Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Life and a Life in the Theater
Title: Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Life and a Life in the Theater Year: 2022 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: TriQuarterly Issue: Issue 161 Description: The essence, the nub, of a life in the theater is surprise, unpredictability, the immersion of a life in time, in an era, at a place. Shakespeare would not have […]
Art and the Art of Teaching
Title: Art and the Art of Teaching Year: 2009 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: TriQuarterly Issue: Issue 134, pp. 7-28 Description: Chicago is in the middle of a theatrical renaissance, with a large diverse community of actors, playwrights, designers and directors living here and making a living here. The simultaneous presence of Steppenwolf Theatre, Lookingglass […]
A Question of Credibility: John Henry Wigmore’s Use of Scientific Authority in Section 924a of the Treatise on Evidence
Title: A Question of Credibility: John Henry Wigmore’s Use of Scientific Authority in Section 924a of the Treatise on Evidence Year: 1983 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: California Western Law Review Issue: Vol. 19, Issue 2 (Winter 1983), pp. 235-268 Description: Prior to the movement of the mid-1970’s to reform the rape laws, and the passage […]
A Good Murder
Title:A Good Murder Year: 1993 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Fordham Urban Law Journal Issue: Vol. 20, No. 3, Article 15, pp. 585-607 Description: This essay will describe a pattern which emerged when researchers examined all homicide cases in the state of New Jersey during the years immediately after the reimposition of capital punishment in […]
What We Write About When We Write about the Death Penalty—A Review of Recent Books and Literature on Capital Punishment
Title: What We Write About When We Write about the Death Penalty—A Review of Recent Books and Literature on Capital Punishment Year: 1999 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 89, No. 2, pp. 751-770 Description: These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when […]
The Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty
Year: 1988 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 79, Issue 1, Article 6 Description: The Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty was published a few months before the United States Supreme Court handed down McCleskey v. Kemp, the case challenging the imposition of capital punishment in Georgia on the […]
The Law as Storyteller: The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
Year: 1984 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Harvard Law Review Issue: Volume 98, No. 2, pp. 494-502 Description: The Law as Storyteller: The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis. Criminal cases are especially rich in drama and narrative. They present stories raising fundamental questions of life and liberty. In ‘The Return of Martin […]